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A synopsis of the astronomy of comets

by: Halley, Edmond, 1656-1742; Senex, John, d. 1740, publisher; Burndy Library, donor. DSI

Publication date: 1705

Topics: Comets, Comets

Publisher: London : Printed for John Senex ...

Collection: smithsonian

Contributor: Smithsonian Libraries

Language: English

Item Size: 93.5M

First published as Astronomiae cometicae synopsis (in Royal Society of London. Philosophical transactions v. 24, Mar. 1705). See R.S. Freitag, Halley's comet, no. 1185

Signatures: pi1 A-C

Tables: p. 7-11; diagram: p. 12

Publisher's advertisement on p. 24

ESTC (online)

Dibner Library. Heralds of science (1980 ed.)

SCDIRB copy 39088015653660 is bound with: Halley, E. A compendious view of the astronomy of comets. London : Printed for J. Millan, MDCCLVII [1757]. Bound together subsequent to publication

SCDIRB copy has bookplate: Burndy Library ... gift of Bern Dibner

SCDIRB copy has a modern greenish-blue paperboard binding with white-painted spine; title inked on spine. The leaves have holes at gutter, showing where the pamphlet was once stab-sewn